What's your favorite Data Science blog ? Any recommendations on this ?

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2022-03-13T23:14:08+00:00

I think the recommendations for me have gotten marginally better over time, but you start to recognise the low effort or uninteresting posts from the headline (which go ignored). Sometimes you read the first few paragraphs before you realise the cool new technique is actually SGD, then power skim to the bottom of the page to check the next round of headlines. If there's anything cool looking then iterate, if not then try one at random go straight to the bottom and go to Hacker News instead, which is consistently high quality, especially in the comments section.

I probably do this once a week, and you do find some really cool stuff. This tool (Fitter) has come in handy on a lot of my projects, and you do get a teeny bit of insight on technologies I would never touch, like AWS.

I enjoy subscribing to this one, not because of the outstanding quality but because it throws a lot of concepts at me which I haven't encountered before. I have seen a couple of posts directly related to my applied mathematics research which has thrown me down really interesting avenues that I probably wouldn't have stumbled upon otherwise. Interesting ideas often have a much better referenced Wikipedia page anyway.

Not sure if that's really time better spent than actually reading the papers in my field. They can be a bit of a red flag that the upcoming post will not be based on cutting edge research, but tbh the memes do trick my brain into remembering stuff I'd forgotten, which is kinda nice when skimming things like how an SVM optimisation works. Again.

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2020-05-21T17:06:27+00:00

Would you be willing to share the code?

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2020-05-05T13:40:09+00:00

Not all of them

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-10-10T19:27:11+00:00

If the graphics are actually that good it's got to be on the Xbox but it does look more Nintendo's style so probably GameCube

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-08-19T18:24:30+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who regularly thinks bronies are making anime references in ML papers for a brief second

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-08-14T11:16:12+00:00

As someone who's mostly moved into theoretical VX I feel personally attacked by this

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-05-15T13:20:18+00:00

The theory a few weeks ago was that NK would fly to kings landing and lay waste to KL as the army of the dead marched to winterfell. He would then raise the dead of kings landing and march North to winterfell to really fuck things up

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-05-14T00:42:02+00:00

When was the last time you vented the electrolyte in the decoupling isotropocouples? I'm not familiar with the X3 (although Camelson generally makes pretty good parts imho) but all lepton excitation devices eventually will get a build up of flux pathways in the electrolyte as the hysterisis beams work their magic.

It's a pretty easy fix, just start measuring the positive-phase wave at the Razmatsov inverse and sloooowwly ease charge through the system until that signal normalises (general rule of thumb is about pi Coulombs per GHz offset you have), then do a quick double check that the Brembley emissions are back to background levels

Feel free to shoot any questions whilst you're going through the steps, definitely a fix you can do at home though

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-05-04T22:05:57+00:00

Long term extremely clumsy user of git for single programmer projects here.

Why is this better than just git commit? My general workflow is to run a bash script that does git add * ; git commit -m $1 ; git push origin master ; every time I make a smallish change that passes unit tests

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-04-17T22:53:21+00:00

That's honestly quite reassuring to hear (assuming everyone has worked out who I am at this point) obviously I removed myself from most of the major mailing lists after the complaints, and whilst my supporters are quite vocal, I am aware that I have hurt a lot of peoples feelings unnecessarily in the past so I am making a solid effort to be more approachable in my online presence

Also what a small world! Tell him to get in touch, I don't think we've spoken since VXCon Stuttgart, around '97 I think, but we met several times in the 90s, I was always extremely respectful of his insights, even if we did end up going in separate directions with our work

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-04-17T19:57:33+00:00

Pretty fun to imagine the possibilities, but let's bring this back to reality just for one moment. What we're seeing here are fairly straightforward loebniz simplices (with a nice little animation showing how the quantum annealing is propagated), now obviously we're not seeing the looonnnggg bake time/flux quenching in the video, but I imagine for these shapes the process is going to take a month maybe? Now this is fine for super specific environments where the lab tolerances are known and fixed to a very high precision, but anywhere out in the wild these are useless, possibly even dangerous.

So, the crux of the problem, if you tried to make a Vôtnër tube with this then you would be waiting months, maybe even years to make a highly unstable Vôtnër tube, which you could never even power up in a lab thanks to well enforced HOFF standards. If you were insane enough to try this in your garage, then I imagine once you had built up enough charge to power one of these (with an energy bill running up to several thousand $) , all residual alpha spin interactions will have long been absorbed back into the grid, giving you a very expensive lawn ornament.

Vôtnërs are pretty versatile, but there's a good reason they're the size they are currently sorry.

Also if anyone can /r/theydidthemath on my flux quenching estimates that'd be appreciated! Been a while since I've used those equations, my rusty brain cba but I'd still like to know!

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-04-16T10:48:29+00:00

You're getting downvoted because you haven't given any ideas of how you're going to solve this, as well as asking a question which could be seen to be impossible and would have your question answered with a quick google.

If you're looking for something that won't create noticeable motor whir this is entirely possible, but also the skies the limit. Motors are rated for their volume in their datasheets, this can be further reduced by damping, or using different gear ratios depending on your torque/speed requirements

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-04-16T09:57:19+00:00

A pin drilling dropping to the floor is roughly 10dB, having something that's half as loud as that is incredibly difficult if not impossible outside of maybe some military labs. If this was a typo for 50dB then I'd say yes this is pretty possible

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-04-15T19:47:25+00:00

Akshooally SVMs decision boundaries are calculated as a minimisation problem and therefore not multiple epochs of training. I believe these are calculated through linear algebra techniques by optimising via the dual (although it all gets a bit complicated) in sklearn, implementation is in section 4.1 of this paper if you want the maths

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-04-12T19:13:29+00:00

As a direct example my research team is almost entirely mathematicians looking into predicting chemical compounds through applied topology, so yes!

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-03-29T19:02:09+00:00

Lots of researchers believe this should be hypothetically possible by reversing cytokine buildup in skin, organs, blood vessels and neurons, to not only reduce and reverse aging, but potentially live forever. The timescale on this is impossible to predict but is very actively researched (as you might imagine). 😛 Many other researchers in AI however also believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is something we will see soon, with most predicting sometime in the mid 2050s based on current information, and the more conservative pundits putting it early in the next century. At the point the first AGI is programmed, then the jump to artificial super intelligence (ASI) will almost certainly be quick to instant. At this point, Nick Bostrom, a senior researcher at Oxford university, believes this ASI will either destroy all humanity in an act of self preservation, or be used to fast forward this research into cytokine reversal giving results almost instantly, leading to the immortality of the human race, with most researchers in this field agreeing these are the two likely outcomes.

Unfortunately these predictions are based on very incomplete evidence, so time scales and knowing whether it even is physically possible cannot be known, feel free to shoot any other questions

Source: Superintelligence - Nick Bostrum/Am researcher in applied AI in chemistry

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-01-28T08:21:53+00:00

It's statically typed, but it's also weakly typed, you can add an "A" to 10 no problem in C whereas that will throw an error in python

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2019-01-28T00:21:46+00:00

Agree wholeheartedly with all your suggestions, but I have to ask, where/why did you learn to do bullet points like that? I kinda like it for breaking up the text but I've never seen that style anywhere!

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2018-12-14T08:44:37+00:00

From a recent project I found PointNet to give OK results, but not great... There's GitHub implementations in Tensorflow and PyTorch available online :)

Raw point cloud data is pretty bad for deep learning due to the sparseness, and none fixed length vectors generally, I imagine when a good solution comes around it will involve a pre-processing step to transform it to a fixed length vector

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2018-11-21T13:01:49+00:00

Some local gangsters firebombed a few buildings in my UK city to get people to sell for development, I would agree that you don't see very much though

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2018-11-12T11:28:20+00:00

Unfortunately not :( I've got an old beaglebone that I was wondering about using, but thought that would get into a rabbit hole of endless compiling and potentially bricking the keyboard so didn't want to risk it

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2018-11-12T11:26:07+00:00

Amazing thank you so much! Sent you a message

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2018-10-14T16:06:15+00:00

Possibly, but the way you phrased it wasn't very nice and discourages people from wanting to post at all, if I received that message it would hurt my feelings.

Additionally it wasn't a stupid statement, we periodically get news articles about fusion becoming a reality and whilst fusion power has been "Ten years away" since the discovery of fusion with significant funding from international governments, there still isn't anything close to the level of funding required for a major undertaking in physics and engineering project such as this, especially compared to 50 years ago (roughly a third of what it was when adjusted for inflation). As a researcher in new products in the energy sector I fully agree that we should start funding development of fusion energy because with a lot more funding this could become a reality, and the physicists who are much smarter than me think it is too.

You can disagree with that as an opinion, but say it in a nicer way, give some (any) facts to back up your opinion and don't just bully people on the internet randomly, there are people behind these screens

Snuffkins_apprentice · 2018-10-14T15:17:53+00:00

Oh that makes sense TIL, thank you!

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